Category: The Useful Stuff

After almost 3 months travelling around the Greek mainland, we are now preparing to leave and travel onwards to Bulgaria. Here are some useful hints and tips if you’re heading this way in your motorhome: Roads & Sat Nav After a close encounter in France last summer with a low bridge which would have made…

One of the best things about travelling around Europe in our motorhome has been finding a more natural and healthy pattern in our daily lives. In our pre-motorhome days we were always too busy, too stressed or just too tired to contemplate much in the way of exercise, and when we did it was often…

As well as being exciting, embarking on a European trip for the first time or entering an unknown country can also be a little daunting. As we left the now familiar territory of Spain and entered Italy, we took to the internet and our various resources to research where to visit and where to stay….

When Paul first mentioned electric bikes as a possible option for us on our travels, I can remember pulling a face at the idea as I envisioned an undersized bike that a generation much older than ourselves may opt for. I wanted a bike that would keep me fit, not one that did all the…

We along with all the other motorhomers who escape the UK for winter (or in our case longer) are incredibly guilty of bragging about all the fun stuff we’ve done, what is often left unsaid is the more unsavoury part of motorhoming, the dark side which should also play a part in the decision making…

Is this the million dollar question – it’s certainly one we’d have like someone to give us the answer to before we set off on our travels the 1st time. What exactly do we need to take and what do we leave behind. Now of course our list may be different to yours, but there…

After our initial 27 day wait for a replacement key to arrive the saga still continues. When we eventually received our replacement firstly they only provided one key and not a set of keys so we are having to be extra extra cautious with it (although I did accidentally leave it in my handbag on the…

When racking my brain to write this list I really didn’t realise how much stuff we had/have for our motorhome. It seems to go on and on and of course we only seem to keep adding to it rather than taking things away. I think I would have found a list like this really…